Social Construction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4080048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ásta Sveinsdóttir, Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (San Francisco State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 884-892 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12265 |
| OpenAlex | W2526245223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 23 |
What is social construction? This essay offers a survey of the various ways in which something could be socially constructed and then addresses briefly the questions whether social constructionism involves an untenable anti-realism and what, if anything, unifies all social construction claims
Epistemology · Realism · Social constructionism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Philosophy
Making Up Peoples? Conferralism about Nationality
Grounding Functionalism and Explanatory Unificationism
Essentializing Language and the Prospects for Ameliorative Projects
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Women’s Choices
Competition, contingency, and destabilization in urban assemblages and actor-networks
Social Structures and the Ontology of Social Groups
Searching for social properties
The metaphysics of social kinds
Metaphysics and social justice
Causal Social Construction
The Relevance of Causal Social Construction
The Rise of the First-Generation College Student
Fear of Knowledge
Historical Ontology
Passing for White, Passing for Black
The Ordinary Concept of Race
Polity and Group Difference
Gender Trouble
Elizabeth Spelman, Gender Realism, and Women
The Social Construction of Human Kinds
Race
How We Divide the World
The Social Construction of What
Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy
Resisting Reality
A Field Guide to Social Construction
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |